# Date: September 1914

"EUROPEAN WAR AND EUROPEAN SOCIALISM

had so much in common.... In the Baden Landtag Franck succeeded in realizing his idea of this Union in practice... It was the well-known Baden "grand bloc," which over a number of years accomplished a great deal of useful legislative work. The Baden province owes many reforms and many successes to this bloc, which represents a masterpiece of parliamentary tactics...

...In recent years he repeatedly succeeded in drawing the S.D. out of its frozen negative attitude toward everything and compelling it to participate in legislative work... The adoption by the S.D. of the law on "Wehrbeitrag" (military levy) is to a considerable degree the achievement of Franck. And finally, his influence proved decisive at a meeting of his party, which preceded the parliamentary session on the memorable day of August 1st, when the Reichstag, thanks to the fact that the S.D. too voted for military credits, presented a grandiose picture of complete unanimity."

* BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ON MILITARY BOOKS.
Doctor of Philosophy Reinhold Günther (Captain): "Military Affairs and the Conduct of War in Our Time". Berlin. 1901.
A decently written popular essay on military knowledge. The author is, of course, a banal German chauvinist. Worth noting from the literature:

Clausewitz: "On War".
Frederick the Great: "Basic Principles of War".55
Napoleon: ?5н
Blume: "Strategy".ф7

Kraft Prinz zu Hohenlohe: "Militarische Briefe".
A. von Boguslawski: "Betrachtungen über Heerwesen u[nd] Truppenführung".
Bourgogne: "Memoires". 
1898. Paris 
(on 
looting: 
soldiers
of Napoleon I's army). ф
Moltke: "Gesch[ichte] d[es] d[eutsch]-franz[ösischen] Kr[ieges]". 
1887.
Bronsart von Schellendorf: "D[er] Dienst des Generalstabes".
Georg 
Cardinal 
von 
Widdern: 
"Heeresbewegungen 
u[nd]
Märsche".
Mahan: "Der Einfluss d[er] Seemacht auf die Geschichte" 
(translation).
ф At author's p. 58:
P. 56 of these memoirs:

"My knapsack (during the retreat from Moscow, on 18 October 1812) was quite well equipped: I had in it several pounds of sugar, rice, some biscuits, half a bottle of liquor, the silk dress of a Chinese woman embroidered in gold and silver, several trinkets of precious metals, including a piece of the cross of Saint Ivan.... a black velvet riding cloak for a woman, two silver liturgical vestments... besides, several medallions and a spittoon of some Russian prince set with precious stones in it."

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* EXCERPTS FROM THE JOURNAL "NEUE WEGE".
Neue Wege. Blätter für religiöse Arbeit. 
(Zurich.) 8th Year [of publication]. September 1914.
NB: P. 371—372 NB P. 371
[October] 19[1]4 [September], P. 352: "If misery becomes too great, if despair becomes overpowering,

* The journal header with page numbers is written in simple pencil, the text of the excerpts is in ink. In the right corner of the document, Lenin wrote down the following address of F. Mehring: "Herr Dr. Franz Mehring Berlin-Stiegitz. Kantstr. 16". Ed.

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111
Prince Hohenlohe: "Military Letters".58
A. von Boguslawski: "Essays on Military Affairs and the Management of Troops".59
Bourgogne: "Memoirs". 1898. Paris60 (on looting: soldiers of Napoleon I's army). ф
Moltke: "History of the Franco-Prussian War". 1887.61
Bronsart von Schellendorf: "The Service of the General Staff".62
Georg Cardinal von Widdern: "Troop Movements and Maneuvers".63
Mahan: "The Role of Naval Power in History" (translation).64

ф At author's p. 58:
P. 56 of these memoirs.

"My knapsack (during the retreat from Moscow on 18 October 1812) was well filled: it contained several pounds of sugar, rice, some biscuits, half a bottle of vodka, a silk dress embroidered in gold and silver worn by a Chinese woman, many trinkets of precious metals, among them a piece of the cross of Saint Ivan.... a black velvet woman's cloak, two silver liturgical vestments... besides, many medallions and a spittoon of some Russian prince decorated with precious stones."

* EXCERPTS FROM THE JOURNAL NEUE WEGE.05
"Neue Wege. Blätter für religiöse Arbeit".66 
(Zurich.) 8th year of publication. September 1914.

NB: P. 371—372 NB P. 371.
[unclear]/p. 595?
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September, p. 352: "If misery becomes too great, if despair becomes overpowering,

LENIN MISCELLANY

wird, wenn der Bruder den Bruder im feindlichen Waffenrock erkannt, könnte noch sehr Unerwartetes eintreten, konnten sich die Waffen gegen die Kriegshetzer wenden, konnten die plötzlich einig gewordenen Völker den aufgezwungenen Hass vergehen. Lassen wir das Prophezeien, aber wenn uns der europäische Krieg einen Schritt näher der europäischen sozialen Republik bringt, so war er doch nicht so ganz sinnlos wie es heute den Anschein hat.")

A certain U. W. Züricher, concerning whom the ed[itorial board], 
p. 388, notes that he comes from circles of 
artists and writers, alien to theological circles.

j 
Oct[ober], 426—excerpts from a letter by Romain 
Rolland—(author of Jean-Christophe) 
to NB:
J[ournal] de Gen[ève] (22—23. IX. Supplement).
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Nationalist, but with bitter truths for socialists.

Oct[ober] 434. German priest: 
"We
!! 
Germans have experienced the happiest disillusionment with our S[ocial]d[emocracy]"...